THE ACORN "KEEP OUT" THIS IS OUR BUSY DAY EDITORIAL The Acorn Content Through the generosity of our Principal, Brother Barker, we are enabled to offer two prizes for the best stories contributed, for each edition of the Acorn. All students except the members of the Acorn Staff are eligible for these contests. The successful contestants this time are Cedinia Bingham, author of "Hawk of the Blue Ridge;" and Vera Hinkley, author of "18's" Triumph. Another thing that has helped our paper wonderfully is the plan suggested by Brother Wilson, that there should be one day in the English classes given over to writing for the Acorn. Both of these plans are very good and have been instrumental in stirring up enthusiasm for our school paper. Students Are You "One-Sided?" Students are you "one-sided" in your support of school activities? Do you support the members who have been chosen to represent the school in debating, public speaking and oratory? I am afraid you do not. It is all very well, fellow students, to support the athletic contests of the school: the basketball team, the baseball team, and the members of the track, but do not give them all of your support. If you give your loyal and full support to athletics give it to the mental activities also. In the past you have given the athletic contests your loyal support but when you are asked to support your debaters or orators you do not respond. You say, "Oh, why come. If they loose it will be because the other team had better and more material and we could not have helped them if we had been there." This is not the right attitude to take, for the debaters and orators and also the Acorn need your support in everything which they undertake. So I say fellow students, get in and work. "Boost and support your debating team, your orators and the Acorn. Do not be "onesided" in your support. ACORN 14 In Memory of Thomas Mercer We feel deeply the loss of one of our fellow students, Thomas Mercer, who was called by death on October 24th. Tom was an active member of the Student Body and up to the time of his death was a loyal student to Weber. We, as a Student Body, extend our heartfelt sympathy and good wishes to the parents and loved ones of our friend. Dramatic Art The one art that appeals simultaneously to our consciousness, both through channels of sight and sound, is that commonly known as dramatic art. We see what we hear. Seeing is augmented by hearing. The mind record is cut deeply, so that the disc of recollection clearly produced the enacted scene. The unperceived of seeing is caught up and detected by the hearing: thus the accurate whole is intergally impressed upon the receiving intelligence. Fragments of sight and segments of hearing are blended into a magnificent unity. Man's voice and body are the great means of conveying thought and emotion. With a gesture we appeal to the eye; with voice we feed the ear. Acting together, they enable the artist and enrich the auditor. To know the technique of gesture, is to be conversant with the laws of nature. Man's expression of thought and God's creation of the universe are predicated on the same fundamental principles. Technique is obedience to law. To produce with the voice what we hear in nature, is to know the glad note of the bird, the laugh of the child, the plea of the poor, the squeel of the pursued rabbit, the moaning of the wind again we must know the laws of God's creation. He who studies the means of man's greatest expression, must be diligent with voice and body. Gesture is universal; speech is local. Of the two, gesture is greater. What we see is truer than what we hear. The "oui, si, ja and yes" are understood in their localities: the affirmative shake of the head is recognized the world over. Our Master Jesus, came to this world, to teach us how to live. To live is to do, to express. That art which teaches and requires the greatest amount of knowledge of life must be the noblest. Dramatic art is one art that demands that artist and instrument be one. He has no piano, no violin, no brush or chisel; unaided, he stands before his fellows and speaks with that instrument which is his eternal legacy; he ennobles his audience and enriches his soul.